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| Kevin J. Delaney / Quartz: |
Bill Gates to lead $1B 20-year duration fund to fight climate change in energy, transport, agriculture, other industries; directors include Ma, Doerr, Khosla — Bill Gates is leading a more than $1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.
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Fortune, Recode, The Drum, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Socialnomics, Bloomberg, Newser, SlashGear, Slashdot, Electrek, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, Mashable, Tech City News, and Washington Post
Tweets: @eilperin, @danrather, @greenhousenyt, @billgates, @alibabagroup, and @jamieogrady
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Ventures launches new fund for AI startups and backs Element AI, a new Montreal-based incubator co-founded by renowned AI expert Yoshua Bengio — Microsoft Ventures today announced two steps that point to how the tech giant's VC arm wants to get involved in artificial intelligence in a big way.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, BetaKit, InfoWorld, ZDNet, VentureBeat, On MSFT, and silicontap.com. Thanks:@sebprovencher
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
After California gives the go-ahead, Nvidia starts testing self-driving cars on public roads in the state — Nvidia has been granted a permit by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self-driving vehicle technology on the state's public roads.| Benedict Evans: |
Mobile is eating the world, 2016 edition: how ~2.5B smartphones and mobile computing with AI, dominated by “GAFA”, reshape retail, cars, and everything else — As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change.
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TechSpot, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and Beyond Search
Tweets: @tomskitomski, @solarconstant, @mdudas, and @gassee
Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Dropbox is now available on the Xbox One — Dropbox has long said that it wants to be available on whatever platforms people use to get things done. That's why it has done so much to integrate with Microsoft Office over the years, for example. But the latest place you'll find Dropbox …
| Aja Romano / Vox: |
Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule — Twitter banned Richard Spencer because he had too many accounts — not because those accounts promoted racism.
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BuzzFeed, USA Today, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Washington Post, Mashable, Gizmodo, BBC, and Vanity Fair. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Opendoor's business model of buying and flipping homes is risky, but the startup's streamlining of the home-selling process has great disruptive potential — I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech's latest unicorn, Opendoor …
Tweets: @benthompson, @brianroemmele, and @nicholasbs
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, plus CEOs of Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Oracle to attend Trump's tech summit in New York on Wednesday — The gathering will take place Wednesday in New York. — Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg …
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Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Yahoo! Finance, Fortune, CNNMoney, Electrek, Redmond Pie, 9to5Google, ValueWalk, MarketWatch, Reuters, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, The Atlantic, Softpedia News, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, Cult of Mac, Investor's Business Daily, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Highsnobiety, USA Today, MacRumors, ZDNet, WRAL Tech Wire, Vanity Fair, MacDailyNews, CNET, Bloomberg, Patently Apple, Business Insider, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and Daring Fireball
| Cadie Thompson / Business Insider: |
General Motors CEO Mary Barra on firm's path into self-driving era, how GM pilot programs will differ from competitors', future of personal car ownership, more — GM's CEO, Mary Barra, thinks your car could soon turn into a “second office.” — With autonomous cars on the horizon …
Tweets: @rubaborno, @businessinsider, and @stanfordcorpgov
| Kim-Mai Cutler / Initialized Capital: |
OpenAI's Jack Clark on where AI research is headed, how automation can affect white collar jobs, academia losing AI talent, how US can stay competitive, more — Jack Clark and I are both lapsed technology journalists, and he writes one of my favorite new newsletters of this year, Import AI …
Tweets: @lewisshepherd
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
With Pebble acquisition, Fitbit now has a software platform to build a smartwatch; CEO doesn't think any current offering has right feature-set and battery life — All signs point to an upcoming smartwatch from Fitbit — Following Fitbit's acquisition of smartwatch maker Pebble …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nantero raises $21M for ultra-dense carbon nanotube NRAM memory, brings total raised to date to $110M+ — Nantero has raised $21 million in funding for its carbon nanotube memory devices, which are an alternative to mainstream semiconductor chips. — The Woburn, Mass.-based company makes … Sponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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